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    "id": 282622,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282622/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 182,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
    },
    "content": "A functioning multi-party democracy requires functioning political parties as established vehicles for the political organization and competition. Dysfunctional political parties lead to a dysfunctional multi-party democratic system. To borrow from one of Kenya’s foremost legal scholars, the late Prof. Okoth Ogendo’s dictum on the challenge of writing good constitutions and not respecting them: “constitutions without constitutionalism”, we should avoid multi-partism without political parties. Political parties, from the foundation of our multiparty democratic system, they form that foundation. Our democracy will only be as strong as our political parties. Political parties give life to our democracy. Political parties and leadership thereof that does not respect constitutionalism undermines, as opposed to promoting democracy. The ethnization of our political parties is a cause of great concern. Equally worrying is the pattern of behaviour by political leaders to exhibit open disrespect of the laws that regulate membership and activities of political parties."
}